carol? >> elizabeth cohen reporting live for us this morning. >>> also this morning, mitt romney may be longing for home sweet home. the republican presidential candidate is having to backpedal from several gaffs in a botched goodwill mission to london. and for millions of brits, that famous stiff upper lip turned to a sneer after this photo op meeting with britain's prime minister when romney questioned london's readiness for the summer games. it wasn't just david cameron firing back. "the daily mail" screams this question. who invited party popper romney? request "the sun" called him mitt the twit, and "the daily telegraph" says, mitt romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive. jim, conservative media is actually downplaying romney's missteps. they say he was merely being honest about the olympic games in london, and britain should understand that. is that romney's view? >> wel

good morning, daniel. >> hi, carol. first, i'm curious who gave you this 18-minute phone call, because was it the president's supporters, and if so, why would he do this or she? >> well, this was a call with several, many of the donors. we don't know exactly how many people were on the call, but people who have been hit up for money from this campaign several times at least. we know they were hit up in 2008. many of them gave the maximum amount you can to a campaign back then, and this time the president very anxious about these fund-raising deadlines coming up is asking for that same amount of commitment this time as well. >> so your report describes the president as sounding weary and maybe a tad bit worried. what did he say that made you think that? >> well, a lot of it was tone, and, remember, this is the president coming back from colorado on friday. he had had a very long day. i don't think we can read into a major theme about what he was feeling, but certainly he had had a long day, and remember, this campaign fu

i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining us on this hot monday. we do begin this hour with the brutal heat smothering millions of americans. for many of you, it is downright dangerous. a massive weekend storm toppled power lines from indiana to maryland. this morning nearly 2 million people still have no way to keep cool and it could be days before power is restored. >> i hate it. it's horrible. we came -- all our phones are dead right now. in case of an emergency we can't make a call or anything. >> throughout much of the country it will be another miserable day. already the scorching temperatures have set records nearly 2,000 times in the past week. 2,000 records broken. many of us witnessed the highest temperatures in our entire lifetime. the weekend storm was so big, powerful and fast, it's a phenomenon that has its own name derecho. it only happens in the d.c. area once every four years and this derecho was a doozy that spanned from northern illinois all the way to the delmarva peninsula, w

carol?hat money because that video -- it take makes sick, i mean, sick to your stomach. so the united states is thinking of sending, whads 16 billion to afghanistan if, of course, it can, you know, get rid of some of the corruption in the afghani government? should it do that? >> that is the key question. this story was americaning yesterday at a time when there was a conference going on when afghanistan was looking for more money for that country for the situation to be improved, asking for donors continue to sport country. the foreign donors are asking should we do this right now there is fatigue about putting money into afghanistan when there's so little to show for it. a month a and a half ago, i was there when we were finding out it was getting better for women because of certain programs in infant mortgage eighth. afghanistan has gone from the worst place in the world to be an expectant mother, according to save the children to the second worst place in the world that is not a lot of i

carol? >> casey wian reporting live from phoenix, arizona, this morning. >>> while the united nations is trying to make peace in syria, britain's prime minister is speaking out. david cameron telling reporters it is time for bashir al assad to go, because if he doesn't there's quite clear there's going to be a civil war. and while violence between rebel groups and government troops is escalating, prident assad has not been seen in public. we have a report from beirut, lebanon. so where is he, arla? >> reporter: well, that's what a lot of people are asking, carol, especially given what happened in the capital yesterday. and just to recap it for our viewers, there was that attack on a high level security meeting that left the minister of defense, the deputy minister of defense, who is also the president's brother-in-law, and one of his security advisers and most certainly a strike at the very core of the regime, leaving the capital in sheer and utter chaos, with violence raging across it. most

carol? if so much time was spend setting up this apartment in such a complex way, booby trapped to explosives, why tell first responders who would likely have been the ones to go into that apartment. and as the police chief has said, it was rigged to kill. make no mistake about that. so why did holmes tell police? that is a question that no one has an answer to right now. your second question, carol, remind me of your second question again, carol. >> i just wondered was the apartment rigged to explode when the door was opened. >> reporter: it appears that way. it appears that way. that's not clear. that wasn't made clear to me by the source. but the way that all of these were tied, and that, quote, unquote, trip wire, that was the first thing disarmed by the robot on saturday afternoon that went in. and that was key. that was the first sort of obstacle for law enforcement. disarm that trip wire. then use water to basically disarm the control box in the kitchen. so the thought here is, yes, t

carol? what's really confusing to people is all the paperwork that you have to read through to buy a house. and a lot of people don't understand the language. >> you said it. anyone who's ever bought a home knows the paperwork is extremely overwhelming, to say the least. so the cfpb is hoping to whittle the mortgage documents down to just a few pages. it's on a mission to do this. it named the program that it's doing the know before you owe project. so it's cutting the loan estimate form from seven pages down to three. this is a form that lays out the cost and the risks of your mortgage. it's also cutting the closing disclosure form from nine pages to five. and this form contains all of your closing costs. of course the goal in all of this is to make sure that borrowers know exactly what they are getting into. so that should hopefully help out a little bit. carol? >> i hope so. alison kosik live from the new york stock exchange this morning. >>> 30 minutes past the hour. good morning to you.

gladje and carole king -- musical legend carole king. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: pleased to welcome carole king back to this program. her legendary career in music is the subject of "the new york times" best----selling memoir, "a natural woman." in addition, she is out with this terrific, and i do mean terrific, cd called "the legendary demos," featuring never-before-heard recordings of many of her iconic songs. carole king, good to have you back on this program. >> why thank you, it is always a pleasure. tavis: i love the packaging here. bam. isn't that cool? >> that was a very, very, very young woman. it is a long time ago. tavis: yeah. do you recall -- it is a strange question -- do you recall this stuff when you hear it? do you remember? >> oh, i do, i do. tavis: the moment? >> it takes me back. there was one song that

carol? >>> happening now in the newsroom, shut down, go to your computer right now. if you can get online, you are lucky. tens of thousands of americans won't have the internet today, all thanks to the fbi rooting out an internet virus. what you need to know and how to fix it. in the voting booth should you be required to show an i.d. to vote? that question front and center in federal court today. so is it about preventing voter fraud or to keep minorities from voting? >> the slogan is believe in america and it should be business in bermuda. that's what mitt romney's all about. >> offshore and out of sight. a new "vanity fair" article explores mitt romney's buried treasure in bermuda. millions of dollars. so how much of his wealth is tucked away on an island? we'll talk to the investigative reporter who broke this story. wow, boom. thunder and lightning. the rangers' manager saying he thought he was dead. and next time you drive past your corner gas station, check out how much the price has

carol? >> so the company that makes the sandwiches says it also provides food to other airlines. is there a concern about food on those other flights? >> yeah. that's a good question. gate gourmet says it's fully cooperating with the fbi and local authorities in the netherlands and also conducting its own full-scale investigation. now the company says it does provide food to other airlines but have received no other reports or complaints. >> let's hope they don't. sandra endo live from washington this morning. >>> also this morning, no sign of two missing iowa girls. one family member says it's as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight. 8-year-old elizabeth collins and 10-year-old lyric cook are cousins, and they have not been seen since going on a bike ride on thursday. their bicycles were found by a lake, but the mother of one of the girls doubts they would have gone there on their own. >> it's not an area that they frequented. they didn't go far from home, either of the g

carol? >> that is so awesome. martin, thank you. kudos to them. that's awesome. >>> for millions of other americans, there will be another miserable day of blistering temperatures. heat warnings in place from south dakota to kentucky. over the past week or so, the record books have been rewritten across the country. to give you an idea of just how historic this heat wave is, new record highs have been set more than 2,200 times. 2,200 times. if you want a different measure of just how blistering the heat wave is, keep your eye on the screen. an suv on a wisconsin highway goes airborne. see it there? that's because part of the road buckled because of the heat. the driver and the passenger have possible neck and back injuries. the westbound section of highway 29 was fixed, and it was later reopened. >>> for nearly 2 million people, the heat is downright dangerous, though. they have no electricity. few ways to keep cool. the outages are scattered across 11 states and washington, d.c. for some, t

carol? >> jaime, thank you. >>> we did ask john leonard, the executive director of the world swimming coaches association to come on and clarify his comments. he refused saying that's all he's going to say on the matter. >>> a swiss soccer player is kicked off his olympic team after what he posted on twitter. he wrote, quote, i am going to batter the koreans, burn them all, bunch of tresos. that is french slang for describing people with down's syndrome. that's him, number 17, in the photo. he has since apologized. he is the second olympic athlete to be kicked out of the games for offensive tweets. >>> and nbc is again under controversy. just before american swimmer missy franklin swam for the gold a "today show" promo aired in primetime. >> when you're 17 years old and win your first gold medal, that's nobody you'd rather share it with. we're there when missy franklin and her parents reunite. a "today" exclusive live from london, tomorrow. >> well, that promo aired about six minutes before

carol?e new doping measures, i mean, tell us more about them. are they -- i hear they're new and experimental. not experimental anymore because they're using them. but new and highly effective. >> yeah. they are. basically this is something that the country has really taken very seriously. they've got something like 150 scientists to test half of the 10,000 athletes here for the olympics. what they're doing is they're going to be running up samples to a loratory that exists in essex and do around-the-clock testing. the focus is on a program called the biological passport program. what that is, is that blood from athletes has been tracked very carefully over time so it's not necessarily that they just, boom, test positive for drugs, but what it does is it shows physiological changes over time that indicate there could be some doping there. so when they see those indicators they go you, you, you, and then test it which is why they're beginning to catch a little more straight away. >> zain verg

written by the one and only carole king. along with the new book there's some new music out as well. it is called "the legendary demos," so the timing of all this is a beautiful thing. as i said, it is on "the new york times" best seller list, and who's surprised by that? >> and available in vinyl, may i add. tavis: i love this. i really do love this. i love this. >> thank you. tavis: it is a throwback. i love it, and i love you. >> i love you, too. tavis: i am glad to have you on. >> thank you for your work. i really appreciate it. tavis: no, i am glad to have you here. it is a love fest. i just adore carole king. >> i know, isn't it? tavis: that's our show for tonight. it will see you back on pbs. thanks for watching. as always, keep the faith. ♪ one of us is changing, maybe we just stopped trying ♪ ♪and it's too late >> for more information on the show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> join us with ed helms. that is next time. we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is the cornerst

carol? >> susan, just a few questions because i know you want to go and read this report along with the team of producers who are also reading that report right now. why louis freeh? why did penn state hire him to conduct this investigation? >> well, certainly his credentials speak for themselves. he was longtime director, of course, head of the fbi. this is someone who is used to looking into various investigations of a criminal nature. but also he has a background and has served on a board of the national center for missing and exploited children. so he certainly has a background and has said that he cares very deeply about the exploitation of children. he had a lot of work to be done. he certainly was going to be looking at whether penn state followed his own procedures, and he has said this publicly, for handling allegations of sexual mis conducond misconduct, especially involving children. >> i know you want to get to that report. susan, we'll get back to you from philadelphia. >>> over

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carol? this is a trading los that happened right under the nose of what was thought to be the smartest banker in the room, jamie dimon. and the loss showing that even from the very beginning, when he first said it was a tempest in a tea pot. and now it's $5.8 billion. and really the period is not on the sentence yet. we'll have to see how the rest of the trade is unwound. $5.8 billion loss shows very significant risk failure in this bank from some of the very people that were depending on having good risk management because of how important banking is to the economy. >> what about relations? will anything happen in light of this new information? >> it's interesting. when you look at this, even a $5.8 billion trading loss which is huge, it's embarrassing, dumb, a big stumble. jamie dimon on the call still talking about how we really messed up. this has shape ken us to the co. we are changing. nobody feels this more than we do. but the question is, what kind of regulations could protect you ag

but there's no way back for carol, or for the region. since 2008, nearly 3000 fracking wells have been drilled in pennsylvania. >> for sure this is not the last time we will be talking about this controversial extraction method. and now we would like to find out what globalization means for you. and this week we talk to gracia goya in mexico. >> i'm gracia goya, i'm 40 and i live in mexico city. i work for a us foundation called "hispanics in philanthropy". we're working to promote the development of latino communities. it means i can sit here in mexico city and work for someone in argentina or in guanajuato in mexico, and at the same time for a company in the usa. like so many people in mexico i'm worried about the violence we've been experiencing here over the last few years. i worry about how the authorities are going to stop this violence. my friends and my family make me happy. i love having them around me and spending time with them. i love mexican food from all our regions. it is delicious. i especially like the food from the sout

carol? >> sara sidner reporting live for us this morning. >>> prepare candidates, by the way, have promised to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. neither george w. bush nor bill clinton followed through but in this exclusive interview mitt romney tells our wolf blitzer he will make that happen if he's elected. >> reporter: do you consider jerusalem to be the capital of israel? >> yes, of course. a nation has the compass itty to choose its own capital city and jerusalem is israel's capital. >> reporter: if you become president of the united states would you move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem? >> i think it's long been the policy of our country to have our embassy in the nation's capital, jerusalem. the decision to actually make the move is one, if i were president, i would want to take in consultation with the lead r leadership of the government which exists at that time. so i would follow the same policy we have in the past, our embassy would be in the capital but the

carol? >> jim spellman live in colorado springs this morning. >>> also this morning, fire crews are celebrating a quick victory outside of los angeles. a fire had flared in the hilly terrain near palmdale and flames swept across 200 acres of grass and bush. but within three hours, firefighters were able to put the fire out. >>> there is new intrigue over the death of one of the most divisive leaders of our times. a new conspiracy theory suggests that palestinian leader yasser arafat was possibly poisoned. and his widow wants his body exhumed for testing. the reason, his personal belongings were contaminated with a highly radioactive element. polonium is the same substance used to kill a former russian spy who had begun working for british intelligence. matthew chance is in london. matthew, this supposedly happened in 2004 when israeli tanks surrounded arafat's compound in ramallah. he could not leave the compound for weeks. so fill us in with what you know now. >> well, i think yasser arafat

i'm carol costello. thank you so much for being here with us this morning. the battle over bain, taxes, outsourcing and whether president obama should apologize gets hot they are morning. the president will be in cincinnati later today and expected to bash romney over tax breaks for big business. but romney is already on the offensive. appearing on republican friendly "fox & friends" this morning. >> the president has only one thing going. that is constant attacks on me. you know, they are dishonest and misdirected. i think the american people recognize that kind of politics as something of the past. it may work in chicago but it is not going to work across america. >> except the attacks on romney seem to be sticking. even some republicans wonder why mr. romney won't release more of his tax returns. after all, they say, they would show whether romney headed bain capital after 1999 when some of the companies bain invested in sent jobs overseas. let's bring in our political editor paul steinhauser to talk

carol? >> so what are vehicle owners supposed to do? >> well, they certainly need to be paying attention to the news and if they have vehicles from this model year, again, the ford escape and mazda tribute suv was the v-6 engines from 2001 and 20 2004, unclear at this point whether there's going to be a crawl. but this investigation has begun. certainly they will want to pay attention and see what comes out of this. carol? >> yeah. aveda jones in washington. >>> can't shake calls to release more tax returns. not because they're coming from democrats. the latest poll comes from republican governor rick perry. >> i'm a big believer that no matter who you are or what office you're running for, should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and other aspects of your life. people have the appropriate bill to judge your background. >> and it's not just rick perry. the influential national review online writes in an editorial, quote, romney protests that he is not legally only gazed t

i'm carol costello.e following now in the newsroom, egyptian authorities are preparing for another round of negotiations try to free two kidnapped american tourists and their egyptian guide. they said the captives, including boston pastor louie are unharmed and well fed. the kidnappers demanding the release of a jailed uncle. >>> the president of florida a&m university stepping down today. he just resigned after the family of a band student who died in a hazing accident filed a lawsuit against the university. >>> the campaign is hot, hot, hot. except when it comes to an actual vision as in hey, presidential candidates. how will you fix our economy? instead mr. obama is calling on mr. romney to release his tax returns and mr. romney is accusing mr. obama of paying off political donors. political cronyism, don't you know. that means that you may elect a president based on whose nasty campaign worked best. let's discuss. l.c. leans left and will cain, cnn contributor who leans right. welcome to both of you.

carol, what do you make of that? >> i think this is the big question, how long can romney sustain -- he keeps trying to change the subject, obviously, as you mentioned in the beginning with the vp pick, how long can he sustain not answering these questions, because it's very clear that the obama campaign is not going to let up on them. these stories are being written by various news outlets but the obama campaign seizes on them immediately and holds conference calls and puts out ads and web ads and we had a poll with nbc showing that this issue is gaining some traction and cutting into romney's economic argument in certain key swing states. so there's no reason at all for the white house in their view to let up on it. >> i think it's amazing, i thought this was such a glimpse into the romney hive. a senior unnamed romney advisor says all this hue and cry from the bedwetters who get to sit on the sidelines aren't going to affect what we're going to do and our plan which is what. the talk, the e-mail that was sent to i

. >> reporter: car-- carol williams is a recovering drug addict.ars on drugs she's turning her life around at marion house. >> we want them to come in knowing that they are individuals who have worth, individuals who have the ability it do all the things that they want to do and that there is a's they can call home, a place where they will get the love and support and also, they will be held accountable here. >> reporter: carol has been clean for nine months. she takes it one day at a time. marion house provides housing for homeless women, those recently released from prison and drug treatment facilities. women find love and support here and the knowledge they can succeed. >> i couldn't do it alone. i needed more support to help me get through all the things i was going through. wanted that long term care. >> reporter: monica scott spent a year at marion house. her life. marion house gave her a voice and confidence. she landed a good job. she said marion house gave her a good foundation. >> it gave meet opportunity to gain some structure. i had kin

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carol, you talked about ralph lauren and its response. no official statement. but when i reached out via e-mail to someone inside the company, pretty high up, this person said to me is this the story also focusing on the other olympic sponsors who do not manufacture in the usa or just ralph, and that person added that ralph lauren does not outfit the athletes in competing or podium wear. the question posed to me was so an athlete winning a medal, not wearing products made in the usa seems one sided. there you have it. that's from ralph lauren. we should point out, someone in the u.s. oc spoke to us and said athletic wear just is not made in the united states. it is all made overseas, whether it is competing wear, podium wear, or as we just saw, opening or closing ceremonies here as well. >> i don't look at the opening ceremony uniforms and think athletic wear. maybe it is just me. >> not exactly athletic wear, not exactly, good point, good point. >> why the berets. a lot of people are wondering. >> you're asking me? well, listen, david lauren said to me that he

9:30. >> carol, will the defendant be there for that? >> that would be directed to the defense attorney. >> that is a preliminary hear ing? >> no, the next hearing is the filing of the charges, and that is where we give the defendant, and the defense attorneys the actual charges that the defense, the defendant will be facing. >> because so many charges -- >> and in the change of venue, is it within the victims' rights to have the trial here, because of everything unfolding here. >> it is not the victim's right, but it is their preference to have it close to the home and most convenient for them, but all considerations will be weighed by the court. >> and because it is so many charges, how long do you think that you will be amending them and adding and removing and that sort of thing? >> well, we are trying to get it right the first time, but as we will be continuing to get more information, and in a case like this, the investigation does not stop. lit continue it will continue up to trial, and as we find more information, we want to get

for me, it was -- >> carol, carol, you have to stop., you know, i never felt beautiful, i never thought -- >> no, gayle, i see the cracks. i see the cracks. i wake up in the morning and i go, oh, my hair, i'm having a bad hair day. we're lucky we get hair and makeup and what not. >> yeah. >> and i'm lucky because i found a way that really works for me. >> got it. >> so i feel really blessed in that way. but in reality, it's like, the hair was like this, the lighting was like that, and i do believe what paulina said when she said, you know, i look back at those photos and i could have been naked all the time if i had that great body! and yes, i think in retrospect, i look back and i go, they were great pictures, they're a part of history. >> i saw some covers that were really stunning. for you, kim, when did you know? >> i am not -- you know, you look back and people would say things and you didn't believe them. >> yeah. >> even when i started in the business, people would say you're beautiful. and because i come from a swimming backgrou